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Dakshineshwar witnesses millions of pilgrims who visit the Dakshineshwar temple to worship the Goddess. The area faces havoc traffic due to huge number of people travelling there every day.
A 340-metre long skywalk is built by the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) that will take visitors to the temple gate. The skywalk is scheduled to be thrown open before Kali Puja.
“We will inaugurate the skywalk before Kali Puja. The date of inauguration will be decided soon,” said Firhad Hakim, Urban Development Minister and the Chairman of CMDA. About 40,000 devotees visit the temple on non-festive days and the footfall increases threefold on Kali puja. The temple was set up in the 1940s. The skywalk would have 14 escalators- 7 each for going up and coming down. It will have four lifts each with a capacity to carry 20 people. It is designed in a way that physically challenged people would be able to take wheelchairs to the elevators without trouble. The CMDA have also developed the Rani Rashmoni road running below the skywalk. The project was planned in 2014 and the work started in 2016.
The Skywalk will be open for the public before Kali puja.
